Blog Category: Raising Girls
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The very real crisis for today’s tween and teen girls
Please note: This article contains reference to suicide and self-harm. Please reach out to the ...
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Dads and daughters in the 21st century
One of the best and most significant cultural changes in the last 20 years, has ...
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ABC News Live Blog Parenting Q&A with Maggie
Maggie was invited by ABC News to answer people’s questions in a live blog on ...
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Raising resilient, capable girls
Social and cultural norms can be deceptively powerful in conditioning both our girls and boys ...
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Girlhood: Parenting Ideas to help young girls through ‘hot’ moments
The Parents Website wrote this wonderful extract taken from Maggie’s latest book Girlhood. It offers ...
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The wonder of little girls’ memories
While I was busy researching for my book about young girls, Girlhood: raising our little ...
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Helping your Young Daughter Find her Sense of Self
Every child is born as a one-off, unique human being. Given genetic gifts or challenges, ...
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Why fairness really matters in families
“Character is shaped by life experience and cannot be seen from the outside or from ...
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Roosters & Lambs – Book extract on Raised Good
Is your child a ‘rooster’ or a ‘lamb’: book extract on Raised Good Tracy Gillett ...
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Helping our girls’ voices not be silenced in today’s world
Warning: this article contains some descriptions of sexual acts. I am a child of the ...
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More concern around consent training for teens to avoid more harm
**Warning: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault.** Schools around Australia are no doubt scrambling ...
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Why we need much more than consent training in our schools to stop sexual assault
Warning: This article discusses sexual assault and uses sexual terms. One of the main reasons ...
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Raising the rooster-orchid child
For those who are not familiar with my work, I often talk about the differences ...
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Top Tips: Resources for supporting autistic kids
With the help of our online community, we’ve compiled an extensive list of resources to ...
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Top Tips: Best resources for supporting kids with ADHD
We reached out to our online community for their favourite books, online resources and experts ...
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Why I’m so worried about the cost of a lost boyhood for our teenage sons
Like toddlerhood, adolescence is such a paradoxical time in our children’s lives and there are ...
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The world needs more kindness warriors
In this age of selfies, Insta updates, over sharing and an incredible fascination with image, ...
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Being a dad in the 21st century
It is a fabulous time to be a father historically, anthropologically and emotionally. The restrictive ...
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